BAROQUE CHRISTMAS FLUTE DUETS
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks here, with the arrival of our new publication, A Baroque Christmas, as well as the village event of the year, the annual Comice Agricole.
Prize-winning cows and beret-wearing accordionists are obviously a hard act to follow, but a new book is always the culmination of months of work and something to celebrate.
A Baroque Christmas is full of lovely Christmas-themed music from Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Manfredini, all beautifully arranged for two flutes and piano. These baroque Christmas flute duets are perfect both for concerts and church settings and I hope you will love them as much as we do. They’re suitable for intermediate and advanced players.
The book includes three favourites from Handel’s Messiah, as well as music from the Christmas Oratorio by Bach, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Purcell’s Sound the Trumpet, and Manfredini’s Christmas Concerto.
Here’s what Chris Hankin says in her Just Flutes review:
“There is some wondrous music in this book which could be subtitled Baroque’s Greatest Christmas Hits… This is such a beautiful volume which is perfect for all sorts of Christmas events. Don’t miss it!”
During the summer, we recorded a few excerpts at the beautiful Jardin Acoustique studios with our flute friend and colleague Jonathan Slade. Here is one of my favourite arrangements from the book, Handel’s “How Beautiful Are The Feet” from the Messiah.
If this sounds like what you’re looking for, here are some quick buy links: from our website for the digital download edition, and for the print edition in the US and in the UK.